Published 2022 📚✨❤️ Ebooks, Paperbacks, and Hardcovers available on Amazon ! ✨📚❤️ Highest ranking: #6 in the Teen Fiction section! "Just one kiss, everyday." "Just one?" "Just one." ***************** "Some things we cannot fix," he repeats. "At least not on our own." "You're not on your own," I whisper. ➽───────────────❥ There are two things Sarah is looking forward to in her senior year of high school - the cooking program she advocated for and graduating. She had a dream to follow - helping her famous parents run their renowned food truck business. Sarah is left home alone for long periods at a time. She navigates her insecurities, loneliness, and deals with a childhood bully by spending lots of time in the kitchen perfecting her recipes. Then there is the new boy in school, Zander, who changes everything. Having lost his mother and carrying the weight of his alcoholic and abusive father's burdens, he struggles to find his place in the world. While bonding over a love for movies and working on a school project, Sarah and Zander find themselves falling for each other. But will their love be powerful enough to conquer their individual fears? ~•~ Completed - 6/27/2017 ❤️✅

2020 WATTYS WINNER in NEW ADULT! Oliver Ausman has been given a second chance at life, but it's hard to feel grateful when he was the one trying to end it in the first place. Returning to his normal life after being released from the hospital is hard, especially since his parent's idea of normal is made up of dinner parties, prep school, fancy suits, and fake manners-- all paired with a complete disregard for the mental health of their firstborn. He's long been fed up with it, but the final straw is when he finds out that his "father" isn't actually his father at all. Oliver decides he's had enough of the perfect facade, so he packs a suitcase and grabs his younger brother, "borrowing" his mother's car to sneak off on a trip to find his biological father. But he never expected to pick up a girl with her own similar set of problems, to be followed across the country by a money-hungry pair of criminals, or most of all, to find out that maybe this life thing isn't as bad as he thought. 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝) - 𝟏/𝟐𝟐/𝟐𝟎

When social services threatens to take away her younger sister, budding singer Kamree Philips must accept help from her young, attractive boss in order to keep her small family together. ***** In a kingdom filled with music and Destiny, Kamree Philips is perhaps the only individual who doesn't believe in love. She can't afford to. With a demanding job and a little sister to take care of, love is the last thing on her mind. However, when social services come to take away her younger sister, Kamree must accept help from her music producer boss, Daxton Cavenaugh, to keep her family together. Despite her notions on relationships, the more time she spends with Daxton, the more Kamree begins to question herself. Love doesn't exist...right? (Book Two of the Anonymous Series) (Can be read standalone)

[2020 Watty Award Winner] Alice Rhodes, an aspiring actress who gets a heart transplant, has to live her heart donor's life like it's a movie role, in order to find her identity and the life that awaits her in Hollywood. ***** A heart transplant causes Alice Rhodes to remember her heart donor's life. Intrigued by the strange people from her new memories, she goes looking for them, only to find herself in the middle of an investigation of the absurd disappearance of an important woman. With her personality changing into her heart donor's, Alice navigates a mysterious world where nothing seems to make sense and yet everything is strangely connected. It's not long before she realizes she may actually be looking for herself in the missing woman, and as she yields to her new heart, she's longing for the one she lost. Content warning: This story contains mature sexual content and themes of depression, sexual assault, and violence. © Robert Peterson 2020

HR- 3TF | "Most people have a hard time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them" Meet Noel Atkins, kinda awkward, has her face stuck to a screen almost every time, talks to herself and always, always wears a beanie. She moves to a new town in other to start things afresh, and scale through Highschool unnoticed and alone. Meet Aaron-lee Altamira, the popular boy, rich, handsome, every girl's dream and every boy's model. With his killer blue eyes and charming attitude, Aaron-lee always gets what he wants. Aaron-lee doesn't do flings and hook ups, he's searching for something real. Something substantial. Something challenging. Something more cherishing than his cars. Something he finds in the eyes of the new girl who talks to herself and always wears a beanie. With the school's hottest boy interested in her, Noel's quite, boring, gaming and withdrawn life is about to take a ride on a rollercoaster. Noel isn't interested and Aaron-lee isn't taking no for an answer. --- All Rights reserved ©2018 CriticallyIntense Cover by @misssarcastic

{COMPLETED!!!} "She's just a little too scared to get close because everyone who said they'd be there, left." -Anonymous Bay Stewart is the girl who never smiles. Not even the slightest of a smile has came to her face in 7 years. She has herself guarded by building walls as high as the Empire State Building around her so that no one can get in. Issac Evans is the golden boy of Eastside High and he is known as the opposite of Bay. He is always smiling and is always optimistic. Issac has made it his personal goal to get Bay to smile more and let the beauty she has been hiding to show. When Issac and Bay collide, Bay is forced to truly acknowledge the pain and hurt that is inside of her that has caused her smile to disappear off of her face. When Issac brings his golden sun into Bay's dark world, something new is introduced into both of their lives. True Love And that is what makes the girl who never smiles smile again. *** "Because, Bay Stewart, you are the best thing that has ever crashed into my life, literally." -Issac Evans ******* Highest Rankings: #6 in teenfiction #7 in teenromance #3 in teendrama #1 in senioryear #4 in lovestory #11 in youngadult #1 in highschoolexperience #1 in sarcasm #1 in smile #1 in Stewart #1 in goldenboy #2 in brokengirl #15 in teen #73 in completed

Bea Callaway becomes pregnant at nineteen, throwing away her parents dream of her attending a top notch university. Her parents give her the option to stay if she does what they say. Without even thinking twice, she moves in with her best friend while she figures things out. Her life once felt perfect and planned, living life on a whim is new to her. #2 in teenfiction #3 in romance

Emilia Anderson and Hunter Maddox are completely different but both of them hide secrets that may be key to the reputations they possess. So maybe they're more alike. Both trying to seem bad but just hiding terrible secrets. When they become accidental roommates, how easily can their secrets be unraveled? ~completed~ ••• Rankings: Highest: #1 in College #1 in Secrets #1 in Badgirl #1 in Hunter #1 in Humor #2 in Mystery #2 in Trouble #3 in Complicated #4 in Fiction #4 in Completed #6 in Love #10 in Badboy #13 in Teen #22 in Romance

*WINNER OF WATTY'S 2015 NEW ADULT ROMANCE* -------- 'You think this is funny?', she seethed. She shot a glance towards his company, who were looking anywhere but at the two of them. 'And what do you expect me to do?', he asked composing himself. 'I expect you to fix it.', she crossed her arms. 'How? You think that dragon would listen to me? If you didn't pick up on it last night, I'm not exactly her favorite person.', he retorted. 'I don't know. You did this. Now fix it.' ------- Blake Cavanaugh is the very definition of 'no strings attached'. Irresistible and indispensible, he is in demand all the way from the football field to the management classrooms to the ladies. And what's more, he knows it. Burning his hours living the quintessential college life indulging in meaningless flings, he seeks to forget his troubled past, believing that anything deeper is unessential concept. That is until he meets Aria Roberts and he finds that she challenges his beliefs on the matter unlike anyone before. A victim of circumstance, college freshman Aria finds herself sharing an apartment with the uncomfortably good looking and ever charming Blake Cavanaugh. Always known as Ms. Goody-two-shoes, Aria is considered my many as the girl who's got it all. Little do they know that she nurses her own wounds when no one is around. But when Blake starts creeping inside the shell she's so marvelously built to keep the world at bay, she begins to question whether or not she really wants to keep him out in the first place. Do sparks really fly when opposites attract? Or do they burn down the house? Do you fall on your face if you take a leap of faith? Or do you fly over the horizon? Are you left with the disappointing ring of silence when you call out desperately in the dark? Or are you rewarded with a voice calling you back with the same desperation letting you know you're not alone? You won't know until give it a shot. *Rights to the cover belong to the author

It all pretty much started with one, a detention and two, a park bench. Baggy jumper, black skinny jeans, sits by herself at lunch, lacks friends and has an abusive father, that's Flo Adams for you. Ryder Fox on the other hand is the infamous bad boy in town who is about to be the leader of the towns gang. He has a motorbike a leather jacket and of course bestfriends that are just as bad ass as him. Follow the adventure that contains: An after school detention, A park bench at 2 in the morning, Bad boys, Maybe a potential love, Gangs and A very possible plot twist.